Title:  Principal Investigator

JOB DESCRIPTION

Role 6-I: Principal Investigator or Principal Scientist)

Designation: 

Job Location: Hyderabad/Bangalore

Department: Synthetic Chemistry

Role Requirements:

Ph.D. degree and or post-Doctoral research with a minimum of 5 years of CRO experience with excellent communication skills is preferred.

• The candidate should manage a team of 13-20 FTEs and capable of designing scheme, troubleshoot, problem solve independently, and execute high-profile project. The person should be flexible working shifts as per the organizational policy. The candidate should be excellent in cross functional teamwork and excellent in customer engagement.

Strategic Responsibilities

Safety:

• Commitment to safety (self, team, lab, and the organization) always
• Ensuring ZERO safety incidents in the lab/organization
• Ensuring ZERO safety non-compliances at workplace. 
• Reporting incidents (or near-misses) and learnings from those incidents to avoid recurrence
• Near miss reporting 1 per year per employee, Reduction in number of first aid injuries reported compared to previous FY, Review SOPs, and checklists for completeness of information related to safety

Quality:

• Ensure to comply with Syngene’ s quality standards and services (self and team) always
• ZERO data integrity incidents
• Adhere to the ALCOA+ principles in all data generated. Ensuring adherence to all Syngene policies related to data integrity by all team members.
• Maintain confidentiality
• Zero repeat audit observations, Zero major and critical observations in external audits, SOP’s vs Practices:
• Review and implement necessary refinements for continuous training, testing, and tracking SOP compliance
• Deviations <= 2% within the fiscal year, tracked monthly

Delivery

• Responsible for Project Health Index: Project planning, Execution, Deliverables including tracking of KPIs for his/her team and Quality of services (internal/client metrics)
• Achieve per-quarter improvement in key FY25 KPIs, per OU per plan, Achieve per-quarter improvement in key FY25 KPIs, per OU per plan, 18-20 steps per FTE per month, 6 compounds/FTE/month, 70% targets TAT within 30 days for deliverables <0.1 g scale and 5 CE/FTE/month for scales >0.1 g scale.
• Set up process, governance & tools for effective, transparent, and collaborative management of the projects in discussion with Group Leaders and Head of the department.

Engagement:

• Good in engaging with internal stakeholders (weekly reports, experimental for completed final compounds etc). Zero flaw in presentations and report, real time, and flawless communication
• 0% business attrition w.r.t scientific environment and work culture
• Excellent in team and cross-functional engagement
• The candidate should train junior TLs to bring to speed

Cost:

• Manage lifecycle of various lab infrastructure, instruments.
• Ensure optimum resource utilization and cost efficiency.

Compliance:

• Adhere to the ALCOA+ principles in all the experiments and data generated. Ensuring adherence to Syngene policies related to data integrity by all team members.
• ALCOA+ deviations <= 2% within the fiscal year, tracked monthly, zero data integrity incidents: Breaches that would lead to a material breach with client or regulator
• Gemba walk compliance at 100%, Timesheet compliance at 100%
• Confidentiality compliance
• Ensuring all assigned mandatory training related to data integrity, health, and safety measures are completed on time by all team members.

People:

• Leadership Next and Succession planning for critical roles – Reduce critical talent attrition by <5%, create succession plans for critical roles
• Build competencies and skills that are required to achieve current and future business needs.

Technical/functional Skills:

• The candidate should have excellent knowledge of modern synthetic methodology including asymmetric synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry, catalysis and the reaction mechanism is expected. 
• Should be expert in synthetic problem solving/troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication skills including face to face and virtual interactions with team and clients. Must have exceptional Presentation skills.
• The candidate should maintain an accurate scientific notebook, draft concise written reports for publications.

 Managerial Skills:

• Expertise in handling multiple collaborations.
• Demonstrated in handling a team size of 13-20 FTEs
• Worked effectively with interdisciplinary teams.
• Efficient Lab management skills
• The Leader must demonstrate the essential qualities of People Management.
  • Giving & receiving performance-enhancing feedback
  • Setting clear performance expectations
  • Conducting challenging performance conversations
  • Coaching individuals toward improved performance
  • Delegating tasks
  • Creating accountability
  • Lead the change